Romney group spent $9.9M attacking Santorum

Houston homebuilder Bob Perry donated $3 million to the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, accounting for nearly half of the PAC’s February haul, according to a report filed Tuesday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission.

The super PAC, Restore Our Future, spent a total of $12.2 million last month, mostly on hard-hitting ads attacking Rick Santorum, as Romney struggled to put away his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination.

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It raised a total of $6.2 million and finished last month with $10.5 million in the bank. But it has continued its brisk spending in March and will need to cultivate new mega-donors or raise more cash from repeat donors if it hopes to keep up the pace over the course of a protracted primary battle.

Perry had been a longtime supporter of Texas Gov. Rick Perry – who dropped his own presidential campaign after disappointing finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire – but had also donated $1 million last year to Restore Our Future.

Other top givers to Restore Our Future included David Humphreys, a top executive of a Missouri building supply company, and former Univision chairman Jerry Perenchio, each of whom donated $500,000.

Notice that Romney so far is the best GOP candidate that money can buy, but, unfortunately, it has been spent trashing the other candidates, and still, even Republicans are uninspired. The waining baggers have proven to be more of a problem to the GOP than to Democrats. Think Romney will look better eight months from now?

Willard "Mitt" Romney and his Super PAC continue to practice Politics of Personal Destruction against anyone who opposes him. I hope all 4 candidates stay in the race to the bitter end and they force a brokered convention. As a Conservative I will not vote for Willard who is no more conservative than Barack Hussein Obama. Republicans who vote for Willard will come to regret their decision. The only difference between the Un-American Muslim Barack Hussein Obama and Willard "Mitt" Romney is skin tone.